Tag Archive | Kaitlin

Today was the day we drove to River Valley school. It was five hours away, too far too come and go every day so we were to be boarding students.

I don’t know what happened when we got to the checkout desk, but Savana suddenly lost it.

“Joy Fully is in room 876 and Sava-”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I wanna be with JOY!”

“Sorry. You are in room 43-”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I won’t do it unless I can be with JOY!” Savana’s mom stepped up.

“Actually Joy probably should be with someone she knows, or she won’t take it well. She has been known to do some not so smart things when she is sad, and she might try to run away if she isn’t with Savana.”

I hoped she was making some of that up, but it worked, and we got to room together.

“You too may go up to room 768 but Mrs Parker stays here.”

We said tearful goodbyes and went up to our room. It wasn’t much, but a place to call our own. I saw a bunk bed, a ladder/shelf, a desk (Why not two?) and a sink. Tired from hours in the car I jumped up to the top bunk and fell asleep. Savana jumped up to me, I don’t know how much later.

“Someone came to our door and asked for Joy Fully to come to the nurse’s office.” The place wasn’t much bigger than ours, decorated the same way. The nurse sat in a chair.

“Hello?”

“JOY!”

Suddenly I knew the nurse’s name=. She used to be my school nurse, back when I was little.

Happy saint Patrick’s day! I helped my dolls fine green things to wear. From left to right Riley is wearing Hope’s meet outfit. Hope is wearing an outfit that came with a girl sized outfit. Mckenna is wearing an outfit made by me for saint Patrick’s day. Grace is wearing the outfit that came from an Amish store in Pennsylvania. Kaitlin is wearing a nightgown from a girl and doll night gown set. And Abby is wearing a outfit from madame Alexander that I got before I was interested in american girl dolls.

One of my favorite sports is carpet ball but we don’t have a carpet ball table and there is no chance of getting one. So I made a carpet ball table for my dolls that you can sort of play. Here is how I did it.

I started with two boxes, One of them is for the base and should be a long as the table but my table is a little short. The other one is for the pockets. You could use two boxes but I used one.

I cut the smaller box in half and cut the top off. I put cardboard on the open ends. I cut the other box to how deep I wanted it.

I cut holes for the pockets and taped the flaps together.

I taped the pockets in with the cardboard edge near the ends of the box.

I covered four paper towel tubes with contact paper.

And taped them to the the base.

I covered the whole thing with contact paper.

I covered the inside with green paper.

Katlin wanted to try it out but the ball did not stay put very well.

I painted the top with green paint for more traction.

And then I cut the tubes and taped mini cans filled with chia seeds (Mom had too many chia seeds and they were heavy.) into the tubes.

Later I covered the paint with cloth. The cloth helps the balls stay better and roll better. I am using marbles for balls and the shooter as the throwing ball.